Category: Russia
Russia audiobook market grows 4X in 2021. “The next five years will be the most successful in the history of audiobooks” – Boris Makarenkov, Storytel RU
The subscription-retail balance suggests that, when price friction is eliminated, audiobook...
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The TNPS Week In Review: December 15-21
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Moscow: Sheikh Zayed Book Award "Russian – Arab Cultural Dialogue" seminar
This past week the Sheikh Zayed Book Award organised a seminar in Moscow in hand with the...
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RH Business Relaunch; VAT on Russian ebooks; Amazon’s Kindle for Kids; Brexit fears; Random House Graphic; Ebooks and Libraries; Nobel Prize Controversy
Industry News Round-Up is a selection of some of the most interesting stories emerging from the...
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Russia’s LitRes expands its Poland operation as North American ebook players continue to ignore east Europe
When it comes to Russian ebooks and audio, one company leads the field. LitRes holds 66% of the...
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Storytel Russia’s first post-apocalypse original series commissioned for ten markets
Metro 33 author Dmitry Glukhovsky has made headlines in Russia recently for penning his latest...
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Vkontakte, Russia’s answer to Facebook, prepares for audiobook subscription service launch
Although it supports 89 languages, the social media platform VK is best known in its home country...
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Sharjah to be Special Guest of Honour at Moscow International Book Fair in September
Not much to report here but it’s such a fine example of the Global New Renaissance...
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30,000 expected at Russia's Non-Fiction Book Fair, which starts today
The 20th edition of Russia’s Non-Fiction Book Fair kicks off today for a five day run in the...
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Russia's LitRes sees 46% ebook growth as Storytel Russia grows. Subscription model has much to offer
Russia’s ebook giant LitRes is seeing 46% growth this year as enthusiasm for the format grows, but...
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Warsaw, Minsk, Bucharest, Bratislava, Lillehammer, St. Petersburg, Dublin, Kiev, Madrid, Lisbon – the European book fair season is under way
Although we have had significant European book fairs already this year, it is in May that things...
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Ten global publishing stories not to be missed. 2 April 2018 collation
The global publishing market has never been more exciting, and every day myriad publishing stories...
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